- A tiny trickle of aid, consisting of 20 trucks, has been allowed into Gaza from Egypt. The fact that fuel is not included is a concern, however, not to mention the continued bombardment. Beyond the actual horrors of the conflict, it has opened up deep divisions among the left as well as among ordinary Israelis. And in the US and elsewhere, there are active efforts to suppress attempts to present the Palestinian side of things, including the cancellation of conferences and attempts to discredit journalists.
- The Kinew government is making efforts to settle the MPI strike, appointing a new board of directors who hopefully will be more prepared to settle with the union.
- The City of Winnipeg is considering moving staff into vacant areas of the police headquarters. Seems more than reasonable to put your staff into a building you actually own rather than renting space elsewhere, though concerns are being raised about the impact on those poor commercial landlords who own the buildings where staff work currently.
- A waste to energy project in the Blenheim area of Chatham-Kent, Ontario will feed landfill gas into the natural gas system (both natural gas and landfill gas are mostly methane). A positive step.
- Also positive is the proposed changes to zoning in Kitchener and Guelph, essentially making fourplexes allowable on any residential lot without the need to apply for a zoning variance.
- A mere 12% of the American population are responsible for half of all beef consumed in the country. Looking on the positive side, this might make measures to reduce beef consumption a bit less difficult politically, since the people affected the most by such measures would be a small minority anyway.
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